Facebook and Instagram Down Worldwide

Today Facebook went down leaving many unable to log in or caused delays in refreshing news feeds. Instagram, also owned by Facebook Inc. also suffered from similar issues.

In the last 24 hours there have been thousands of reports logged via Downdetector.com

The worldwide black out seemed to peak from 2pm GMT, with nearly 9,000 Facebook issues and 7757 Instagram faults reported between 2-3pm alone!

According to the Down Detector website the most reported faults for Facebook were;

Log In – 40%

Black out – 40%

Pictures 20%

And Instagram faults were reported as;

News feed – 48%

Website – 26%

Login 24%

Comments on the site have been left from users all over the world unable to log in or refresh news feeds. As you can imagine the majority of comments are reportative of each person’s error message with a large amount of negative feedback. One person stated “my facebook and instagram is not working right now, and I seriously don’t know what to do”. Another asking “did someone at Facebook trip over a plug?”.

As of yet, Facebook have not disclosed any information but we will update here as we find out more…